I ended up giving him a brief description of Clojure, with stress on its ability to do heavy lifting with very little code, and sent him a link to Neal Ford's talk "The Curious Clojurist" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLnpgnDApg>. We'll see what happens. Thanks everyone for your advice.
On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 3:20:23 PM UTC-7, Johanna Belanger wrote: > > Hi :) > > I've recently broached the subject of Clojure with another dev in my > organization, and his response was basically "What's Clojure"? and I'm not > sure how to answer that in a way that might inspire him. "It's a > dynamically-typed functional Lisp with persistent immutable data structures > that runs on the JVM" doesn't seem like it will grab his interest. =) > > I work primarily in .NET, and he does enterprise Java. I don't know him > well enough to know how happy he is with it. He did express interest in > learning .Net. > > I came to an appreciation of Clojure through > > -CQRS (the power of decomplection!) > -Sussman and Abelson's SICP class at MIT online (the power of > homoiconicity and functions!) > -the death of Silverlight (alternatives to Javascript in the browser?) > > By the time I found Rich Hickey's talks (eg Simple Made Easy) I was pretty > well primed to love Clojure. I've been using it for little personal > projects and prototyping for a couple of years, but I haven't put it in > production because no one else here knows it. > > Could anyone tell me how they got from enterprise Java to Clojure? > > Thanks very much, > Johanna > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
